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After having a delicious brunch over here, we started moving towards Jabra campsite. Jobra campsite was not that far from here. It was around 1.5 or 2 km. They were no trees around now as we were quite above, at the non-tropical zone.
River Crossing—
There was one major hindrance between us and the Jobra campsite, and it was this stream of water. There was no wooden bridge built on it this time and what I have seen in the videos and blogs of Hampta Valley before people used to cross this cross the river using traditional river crossing techniques of placing rope on both the banks of the river, but as this was fall time, the water was not that much in the river, so our plan was to cross it just by hopping on the rocks in the river.
We could see the Jobra campsite, but there were no camps pitched over there. We need to get around that radish grass that we could spot from there, although it was looking quite near, but as there was no such thing as trees to scale down the things in reality, it was quite far away.
Although the water was very less in the river, but we still need to be very careful while crossing it as falling in, it would be dangerous because of its freezing cold water that it carried from glacial bodies.
The Rockey Terrain-
I was not able to capture a lot of photos while crossing the river as my focus was on crossing rather than capturing the photos. After crossing the river, we reached around such a terrain that was full of huge rocks.
We had a great time, hopping onto the rocks and crossing them. There was no trail now. All we had was the trust that we needed to do on our intuitions and the sense of direction that we had
This rocky patch was also very longer than it’s looking in the photos. It took us around 15 to 20 minutes to cross this patch and reach Jobra campsite.
Reaching Jobra Campsite—
We were now about to reach the campsite, but we couldn’t find a single tent over there, but in peak season, there are multiple camps set up there to help trackers. Stay for the day two of their Hampta Pass expedition.
This campsite is at around 3200 m of elevation from sea level and there are no trees around the only thing that’s available there is freshwater and fresh air. To get wood you need to get back to the Jungle near Chika campsite and source it from there.
The next campsite on day three is usually Balu ka Ghera that’s about 2 km from here, and after that people go to Spiti Valley after crossing Hampta Pass. It’s an expedition of about 5 days, which ends at Manali after people explore Spiti Valley in the four by four vehicles. Usually tracking company take people to Chandratal Lake, and then they get back to Manali.
This track is also called the valley of flowers of Himachal Pradesh and it’s full of flowers in the spring time and also in monsoon time, the best season to visit this is early summertime.
That’s all for today!!!
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Peace ☮️
